Flagship Intel Skylake-S Core i7-6700K CPU benchmarked
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Supertribble
My 2600k is still looking good. Frankly my body isn't ready for a full on upgrade, so I'm not too bothered about yet another slight upgrade from Intel but it's clear the CPU market needs a strong AMD.
southamptonfc
If you have a 144hz monitor, you'd be surprised of the performance increase you'd get in some games from upgrading, despite the benchmarks to the contrary, I was.
Skylake-E will probably exist oneday but first will come Broadwell-E.
vbetts
Moderator
Well I could upgrade, get overclocking abilities, faster IPC performance, but I would lose OS X support, 2 cores and at least 4 threads...
dat overclokin tho
anticupidon
Maybe i will upgrade in late autum.Still rocking my i7,only thing i want now is to lower my electricity bill.
vidra
TBH, although I am always excited to see a breakthrough in computer hardware, this slow progression is soo easy on my wallet.
The only 2 reasons why I've upgraded from my trusty Core i5-750 were:
1) SATA2 was bottlenecking my SSD,
2) The UEFI requirement for Windows 10 (although that one remains to be seen).
The same goes for my graphics card. At 1920x1200, my GTX 670 is still going strong, especially since none of the new demanding titles are my cup of tea, really. That leaves much more cash for the missus and myself to set aside for a rainy day or for nice trips to the UK - so I'm not complaining that much about the apparent lack of progress.
XenthorX
The truth <3 Recent title i liked was so easy on my GTX670, i sold my whole setup and built another with second-hand gtx570...
I'm somehow not surprised that first iteration of a new tech might not be over the roof, especially in side-market as personnal computer.
It's no big news that the market is driven by mobile device/laptop so this is where the money goes, and the result are there.
Prod
I want to see some 2600k vs 6700k stuff. I really want to upgrade to a new CPU for DDR4 but if it is only going to be 5 to 10%, I might as well stay on my 2600k @ 4.8ghz. I do do some video editing but not much. I mainly game at 1080p. However My TV that I use as my screen is 4k so I wonder if that would help more with a newer cpu. I guess I will have to wait and see.
Singleton99
well ive just ran my ivy-bridge @ 4.6 and get a score of 9.11 multi core, so i don't see much point to upgrade to skylake atm, i will just keep spanking my i7 🙂
ScoobyDooby
Yeah, that's fair.. and I think this is why you get people like myself who are waiting for a significant reason to upgrade.
IMO if Intel were smart, they would focus not only on the mobile market, but on their enthusiast market as well. Technically though, I also understand why they may feel that they don't need to.. AMD isn't pushing them to at all.. so..
tsunami231
We lucky we get any gains performance wise, they have no competition period, AMD bad joke at this point (cpu performace wise), we can only hope AMD "Zen" or what ever they calling it that a year or 2 out? isnt just paper fluff, till Intel has reason to show us huge gains they probably wont do it, special when there current stuff still sells and still out performance the competition. cause from profit stand point there wouldnt be reason too
No competition = main reason we dont see those huge gains we used too, that or they hit some wall.
I firmly believe when AMD pull there head out of there asses and makes CPU worth damn that can put heat on Intel performance wise, we wont see huge gains.
Singleton99
At the very end of the day though , there isn't going to be any point in upgrading our rigs , until the the console market are upgrading their machines that's if we are only using them for gaming which i do , ok fine we now have 4k monitors becoming more popular, but most of that comes down to GPU anyway doesn't it .
MorganX
It's a family
Skylake comes with a new chipset which is also a part of the equation. Native Thunderbolt II support, DDR4 (primary benefit of ddr4 to many is the density). More USB ports, more sata express and M.2 interfaces, etc. etc. Evolutionary, not revolutionary for sure. But a good progression.
Dazz
AMD is worth $187 mil, and Intel is worth $55.8 Billion so the reality is AMD can NEVER topple Intel, that have almost limitless amounts of money at it's disposable and spends more on R&D for their processors than what AMD's graphics and processor divisions is worth 5 times over.
The only people that can turn that around is the customers!
Fact even when AMD had the upper hand with their Athlon range Intel used antitrust and espionage against AMD to keep them down while they band aided Intel Centreno for desktop (intel Core Duo/Quad) preventing AMD from having any real impact on the Market despite their processors being better.
Even if the AMD Zen processor is double the performance of Intels offerings and priced less they will still have no impact at all since businesses will ALWAYS buy Intel no matter what.
-Tj-
saw this @techpowerup few weeks ago
http://s8.postimg.org/o09dx44j9/Core_i7_6700_K_ES.jpg
kind of high voltage for just 4.15Ghz (103mhz bclk) and 14nm.. I can do 1.175v @ 4.5ghz. I think The DeeGee too 🤓
Imo it will OC the same as 4790K, 4.6 -4.8ghz on avg.
Weecka
I wonder how much longer my 2700k will last. As i haven't seen any really impressive CPU's so far ( i guess that's what happens when there's no competition). I guess 4-5 more gen's, maybe even more.
-Tj-
Our igpu 4600 chips should have hw h265 support via driver, openCL 1.2 and some hvec intel plugin.
check this thread for more info
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/544928
-Tj-
Yes, but did you clicked on that 1st link? someone wanted to use hvec encoding but had issues.. He fixed it in end.
bigfutus
Well, i get 550 points in Cinebench R15 on my overclocked prehistoric i7-920, so it should look something like this and that's a nice bump. On top of that SATA3, USB 3.1 (even if not native), cooler, more power efficient. Me like a lot.
http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i5_4670k-26-vs-intel_core_i7_6700k-518
0blivious
Other than simply having the upgrade bug, is anyone that's running a Sandy Bridge i5/i7 (or newer) actually feeling let down by their CPU for anything? Seems like once you're running one of those, you're golden for gaming and multi-tasking. Even my son's i7 860 is still perfectly fine for heavy gaming.
I'd love to see a new processor series from AMD that runs efficient (both power-wise and computationally) and just mops the floor with the FX series. It doesn't need to crush Intel to light a fire under their butt too but I wouldn't mind seeing Intel get a good drubbing again.
ScoobyDooby
Beautiful isnt it?
Easily the best cpu I've purchased.. SB rocks.
